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Monday on MSNBC ‘s “The Last Word,” host Lawrence O’Donnell featured a video of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg getting a standing ovation at Abyssinian Baptist Church after former President Donald Trump’s guilty verdict in the New York business document trial. O’Donnell said, “Donald Trump didn’t go to church on Sunday. He never goes to church, never. After becoming the first prosecutor in history to convict a former president of crimes, the Manhattan district attorney went to church on Sunday morning as he always does. It is the church his parents brought him to when he was growing up just...

Hell on Earth. Washington, DC, Possibly Sometime in the Near Future A 1-megaton thermonuclear weapon detonation begins with a flash of light and heat so tremendous it is impossible for the human mind to comprehend. One hundred and eighty million degrees Fahrenheit is four or five times hotter than the temperature at the center of the sun. In the first fraction of a millisecond after the bomb strikes the Pentagon, there is light. Soft X-ray light with a very short wavelength. The light superheats the surrounding air to millions of degrees, creating a massive fire-ball that expands at millions of...

Transgender male-to-female actor Michaela Jaé (“MJ”) Rodriguez received a standing ovation at the 80th Golden Globe Awards on Sunday in belated recognition for winning the Golden Globe for lead actress in a drama series last year for FX’s Pose. MJ Rodriguez was recognized by her Pose producer Ryan Murphy during his acceptance speech for the Carol Burnett Award. In his speech, Murphy praised Rodriguez for “making history” for being the “first transgender actress ever to win a Golden Globe.” “Let’s give her the ovation she deserves to hear,” Murphy said. As Breitbart News reported, Rodriguez’s win at last year’s (non-televised)...

Republican Representative and vice chair of the House January 6 Committee Liz Cheney has received thunderous applause from a GOP crowd for saying Republicans needed to make a choice between supporting Donald Trump and the Constitution. Making a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, on Wednesday, she reflected on the revelations from the committee hearings. A video of the moment has also gone viral, with over 180,000 views on Twitter.

Liz Cheney spoke at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California and condemned Donald Trump and the MAGA movement in the GOP saying you can’t support Trump and the United States Constitution. Liz Cheney received a standing ovation from the Republican crowd.

A 65-year-old Indiana pastor has stepped down from his role in the church after admitting he had an affair with a 16-year-old girl in front of his entire congregation. Pastor John Lowe II stepped down from the New Life Christian Church after being confronted on stage by Bobi Gephart, a 43-year-old woman who came forward with a microphone to tell their church in Warsaw, Indiana, how he'd groomed her as a teen, starting when she was 16 - the legal age of consent in the state. Pastor Lowe II had just told the church that he 'sinned' 20 years ago...

WARNING: ADJUST/LOWER THE VOLUME OF YOUR SPEAKERS FIRST** The crowd was insanely loud! Sen. Ted Cruz visit's Arlington, Texas, speaking at an event organized by several DFW-area grassroots organizations including, the Lone Star Tea Party (Arlington), on October 22nd, 2013. This is video of the record 13 minute standing ovation.

As Twitchy reported last night, Sen. Ted Cruz declared it “great to be back in America” as he returned to Texas and a packed house to welcome him home. Tonight, Cruz attended a similar event in Arlington, Texas, where he promised not to speak for 21 hours, referring of course to his famous filibuster. Cruz was reportedly greeted in Arlington with a standing ovation that lasted anywhere from 9 to 14 minutes. Last night’s standing ovation in San Antonio was reported to be only 8 minutes, although there was “Green Eggs and Ham” cake at that event.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, received a standing ovation during his speech at First Baptist Dallas church on Sunday for calling to abolish the Internal Revenue Service.

Washington (CNN) - Former Vice President Dick Cheney earned a standing ovation Thursday at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, proclaiming "Barack Obama is a one term president."

UNITED NATIONS -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan won a standing ovation from the U.N. General Assembly, a rare public display of support in response to recent calls for his resignation from several U.S. lawmakers. U.S. deputy ambassador Patrick Kennedy joined fellow diplomats as they rose to their feet Wednesday, despite President Bush's refusal to support the U.N. chief pending the results of an investigation into alleged corruption in the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq.[snip]"In 15 years I've spent at the United Nations, this is the second time that the General Assembly had a standing ovation for a leader," he said. The...